Music-indicator.



No. 860,890. PATENTED JULY 23, 1907. B. WILSON. MUSIC INDICATOR. mum-nonmam r2341, 1m. nnxnwnn 1.11, 1001.

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EBENEZER WILSON, OF FINDLAY, OHIO.

MUSIC-INDICATOR.

Patented July 23,1907.

Applicati n fi e February 17, 1906, Serial No. 301,650. Renewed January17, 1907. Serial No. 352,813.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ennnnznn WILsON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Findlay, in the county of Hancock and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Music-Indicators, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to means for teaching music through the mediumof an indicator in which a certain number of notes of mechanicalconstruction and capable of manual movement on a staff may be made toshow any desired tune; and when the indicator is placed upon the staffto indicate a certain cadence, then each movement of the indicatoreither up or down, produces different cadences. There may be differentforms and arrangements of the means mechanically. As herein shown thestaff may be drawn upon a piece of thin board or cardboard or othermeans suitable to the purpose. The indicator proper in the presentinstance, is shown as consisting of two sheets of cardboard, wood, metalor other substance, fastened together, leaving vertical spaces for stemscarrying the musical signs to move up and down in them, to admit of theindicator carrying the notes, musical signs, &c., to have the lattermoved about with respect to each other.

Reference is to be had to the annexed drawings and to the figures ofreference marked thereon which form a part of this specification, and inwhich Figure 1 designates a face view of the staff board. Fig. 2 is avertical sectional view thereof taken on a line near the left end. Fig.3 is a face view of the indicator. Fig. l is a horizontal sectional viewof Fig. 3.

' Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view of Fig. l. Fig. 6

shows a face view of the staff with the indicator in use in connectiontherewith. Fig. 7 shows a clef in use with the staff and indicator.

In the drawings 10 designates the face-board and 11 the back-board ofthe indicating device, between which at desired intervals there arevertical spaces, 12, adapted to have the stems, 13, of the notes, signs,or marks, 14;, relating to music, extend and resulting from theinterposition of vertical strips therebetween as seen in Fig. 3. At theleft-hand end of the board there are spaces, 15, similar to those marked12 for the reception of the stems the clef and other signs. The stems,13, may be made to extend in any direction and to have any form that ismost desirable or that may be most useful.

It is intended to use the invention chiefly as a means for teaching therudimentary principles of music in every way and by every mode that maybe found useful.

The indicator can be made of any length or width de sired. Any shape orsize of noteswhole, half or quarter notes, &c., with corresponding rests&c., can be used-and other characters, signs &e., connected with theteaching of music may be employed; and it may be used in connection withother devices for the purpose without departing from the nature orspirit of the invention.

The following will indicate the working of same.

1st Position.

HHi i i l 1 2 3 2 1 Do e. Mi Re D0 g a b a g With indicator raised onedegree expresses the following: 7 0

2nd position, 2 3 f 3 2 3rd 3 l 5 4 3 4th 4 5 e 5 4 5th, 5 (3 7 G 5 6thG 7 8 7 6 7th 7 8 2 8 7 8th 1 2 3 2 1 Thus changing the reading eighttimes, which would require forty notes to be written, to express thesame number of cadences without the use of the indicator. Then byinverting the indicator, it expresses, without changing the notestherein, the following result:

I G "l A! First position, 8 7 G 7 8 Second 7 6 5 (3 7 Third G 5 f 5 6Fourth 5 4 3 4 5 Fifth 1 3 2 3 f Sixth 3 2 1 2 3 Seventh 2 1 7 1 2Eighth 1 7 6 7 1 This with the others named, will make eighty notesrepresented by one five note cadence of the indicator. This can berepeated ad inf nitum.

It is my purpose also to employ a blackboard or something the equivalentthereof in connection with the indicator and staff, on which I proposeto express in words or other signs what is represented by the staff andindicator, as I have done hereinbefore on which the paper bearing thefigures following the indicators, staves, &c., has been expressed. Ineed nothing further to express the usefulness of a blackboard or adevice of equivalent character in connection with the other parts of theinvention to render it fully useful in many respects.

In addition to the uses I have mentioned for my invention there aredoubtless many others that will be found of value and importance bymusic teachers and 110 others, and that may be employed in connectionwith what is pointed out in the claims expressed by me, and of these Ipropose to take advantage in the employment and application of myinvention.

It will be observed that through my indicator it is repeated, the notes&c., can be arranged therein by moving them out different distances torepresent any cadence or tune.

Again, it is to be kept in mind that by my indicator when a certaincadence or tune is arranged therein, by raising or lowering theindicator on the staff a different cadence is shown by each new positionof the indicator.

I claim:

1. A device of the character described, comprising a board having aface-member and a baclemember, with intervening vertical spacestherebetween, opening out through the top and bottom edges thereof andmechanical musical characters having their stems effective for insertion into said vertical spaces for the projection of their oppositeend-portions beyond said bottom and top edges.

2. A contrivance for objectively teaching rudimentary music comprising aboard with the musical staff thereon and a second board composed of aback-member and a facememher, with intervening vertical spacestherebetween opening out through the top andlggttom edges of the latterboard and mechanical musical characters, said spaces being ellective forthe reception of the stems of said characters and for the reading 01'the sngge tive or indicia portions 01' said characters upon said stafffrom above or from below.

I. A device of the character described, comprising a board with themusical staff thereon, and an additional board composed of a face-memberand a luck-member, \vith intervening vertical spaces therebetweenopening out through the top and bottom edges thereof, and mechanicalmusical characters, said spaces being el't'cctive tor the reception ofthe stems of said characters and the opposite end indicia portions 01:said characters projecting beyond either of said edges for reading uponsaid stall from above or from below.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

El llGNEZldli \VILSON.

\Yitnesses CHARLES A. S'IOCK'loN, Emu Ll. STOCKTON.

